Reflection of entrepreneurship and industrial tourism heritage in Anatolia: Case of Adana

The entrepreneurship has taken its place as a vibrant concept in the world. Entrepreneurship, which has existed for centuries but gained its momentum with the Industrial Revolution, bringing together the history and culture of the period in industrial structures, brought innovations in many different fields, both in science and technology. While small production houses and workshops left their place to large factories, muscle power left production and was replaced by machines. Factories that could not keep up with this technological change, which increased the competition day by day, ended their production activities and became idle. At this point, industrial tourism, which is an alternative tourism type and has successful examples especially in Europe, has emerged. Industrial tourism includes visits to active and inactive factories. These visits include gaining knowledge and experience about the history, cultural values, and experiences of industrial buildings. The purpose of the study is, the detection of the historic factories which were established as a result of entrepreneurial activity in Turkey Adana province and around which has the potential of the industrial tourism, and is to examine the current situation in terms of industrial tourism. In the first part of the study, theoretical information about the definition, concepts, determining factors, history and importance of entrepreneurship is given. In the second part of the study, the concepts of Industrial Revolution, industrial tourism and industrial heritage are presented, successful examples of industrial tourism in the world are given and the concepts of industrial tourism and entrepreneurship are associated with each other. In addition, the industrial entrepreneurship that was carried out in the Ottoman Empire and Atatürk periods and the factories established at that time are explained. In the third part of the study, data on industrial buildings established in Adana during the Ottoman Empire and Atatürk periods, and photographs documented as a result of observations are included.